Download or read book The Jews of Poland written by Bernard Dov Weinryb and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 1973 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jews of Poland tells the story of the development and growth of Polish Jewry from its beginnings, around the year 1200, when it numbered a few score people, to about six hundred years later, when it totaled a million or more people. This books records the development of this Jewish community. It attempts to capture the uniqueness of each period in the history of this community. In recounting the saga of Polish Jewry, the book endeavors to see Polish Jews as human beings acting and reacting humanly to the exigencies of life with courage and weakness, high ideals, beliefs, and sacrifices, on one hand, and human frailty, passions, and ambitions, on the other.

Download or read book The Legacy of Polish Jewry written by Tzvi Rabinowicz and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Legacy of Polish Jewry written by Harry Mordka Rabinowicz and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Polish Jewry written by Marian Fuks and published by Warsaw : Interpress Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Legacy of Polish Jews written by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sparks Amidst the Ashes written by Byron L. Sherwin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sherwin concludes with a controversial proposal for the future of Polish-Jewish relations.

Download or read book The Legacy of Polish Jewry written by Tzvi Rabinowicz and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Jews of Russia and Poland written by Israel Friedlaender and published by New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 1915 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Polish Jews in the Soviet Union 1939 1959 written by Katharina Friedla and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2022 PIASA Anna M. Cienciala Award for the Best Edited Book in Polish StudiesThe majority of Poland’s prewar Jewish population who fled to the interior of the Soviet Union managed to survive World War II and the Holocaust. This collection of original essays tells the story of more than 200,000 Polish Jews who came to a foreign country as war refugees, forced laborers, or political prisoners. This diverse set of experiences is covered by historians, literary and memory scholars, and sociologists who specialize in the field of East European Jewish history and culture.

Download or read book A History of Polish Jewry During the Revival of Poland written by Isaac Lewin and published by Shengold Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains two books bound in one volume. "The Political History of Polish Jewry, 1918-1919, " by I. Lewin (pp. 1-220) describes the struggle of Jews for political rights in Poland (and their internal struggle for representation in the Sejm) during the process of organization of Poland as an independent state until it signed the Minority Treaty in Versailles on 28 June 1919. Deals with tensions of the postwar period, including antisemitic manifestations and pogroms in Chelm, Cracow, Lvov, Pinsk, and other localities. "The National Autonomy of Eastern-Galician Jewry in the West-Ukrainian Republic, 1918-1919, " by N.M. Gelber (pp. 221-317) discusses the situation of the Jews and struggle for their rights in the Ukraine, against the background of the Polish-Ukrainian war and emergence of the West Ukrainian Republic in 1918. The Poles wished to assimilate the Jews and form a common front against the Ukrainians. The Jews wished to remain neutral. Analyzes the implications for the Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians of Jewish attempts at neutrality. Deals with conditions which led to the pogrom in Lvov in November 1918, and with the antisemitism of civilian and military authorities in the West Ukrainian Republic which, however, offered Jews full cultural and national autonomy.

Download or read book Out of the Shtetl written by Nancy Sinkoff and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2003 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jews in Krakow written by Michał Galas and published by Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry. This book was released on 2011 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few Polish cities have evoked more affection from their Jewish inhabitants than Krakow, and this volume brings together the work of leading historians - from Israel, Poland, Great Britain, and the US - to explore how this relationship evolved. It takes as its starting point 1772, when Poland was partitioned between the Great Powers and Krakow came under Austrian rule, and it examines the relationship between the Jewish minority and the Polish majority in the city in the different stages of its history down to the period of German occupation during World War II. An additional perspective is provided by a consideration of how Jewish life in Krakow has been remembered by Holocaust survivors and how it is portrayed in post-war Polish literature. The main explanation for the specific nature of relations between Poles and Jews in Krakow seems to be that Jewish acculturation to Polish culture was more pronounced in Krakow than anywhere else in Poland. The Jewish community as a whole opened itself up to contemporary currents and participated in the life of the city, above all in its cultural dimension, while nevertheless retaining a highly articulated sense of Jewish identity and unity. This meant that Jews were able both to defend their interests effectively and to establish links with the rest of the population from a position of strength. An additional important factor appears to have been the more tolerant atmosphere which prevailed in the Austro-Hungarian empire, which meant that ethnic tensions were less acute than elsewhere on the Polish lands. Furthermore, the fact that the city was largely pre-industrial and conservative, and was a spiritual and intellectual center for both Catholics and Jews, may paradoxically have mitigated ethnic conflict, as did the fact that the two societies - Polish and Jewish - were largely socially separate. While the increase in anti-Semitism after 1935 and the consequences of the Holocaust are still etched in the minds of many, the city nevertheless has a special place in Jewish hearts and will continue to be remembered as one of the great centers of Jewish culture in east-central Europe. As in other volumes of Polin, the New Views section examines a number of important topics. These include a general investigation of the situation of the Jews in Galicia, an analysis of the position of Jewish slave laborers in the Kielce area under Nazi rule, an investigation into the resurgence after 1944 of the myth of ritual murder, and a discussion of the history of the Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia after the World War II. [Subject: History, Jewish Studies, Polish Studies, Cultural Studies]

Download or read book The Legacy of Policy Jewry written by Harry M. Rabinowicz and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Jews in Poland written by Iwo Pogonowski and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classical historical work describes the rise of Jews as a nation and the crucial role that the Polish-Jewish community played in its development.

Download or read book The Legacy of Polish Jewry written by Tzvi Rabinowicz and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Jews in Poland and Russia A Short History written by Antony Polonsky and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very readable and comprehensive overview that examines the realities of Jewish life while setting them in their political, economic, and social contexts.

Download or read book No Way Out written by Emanuel Melzer and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 1997-12-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scholarly study sheds important new light on the politics of Polish Jewry on the eve of its destruction. Drawing from sources in the Polish Jewish and non-Jewish press and from archives in Europe, Israel, and the United States, Emanuel Melzer examines the efforts of Jews in this major center of Jewish life to secure its existence and advance its interests in the late 1930s, when the radicalization of antisemitism became an increasingly prominent theme in the countrys political life. With the death of Pilsudski, the prognosis for the Polish Jews appeared increasingly bleak, as hostile forces sought to abrogate their constitutional rights and force them to leave the country en masse. The enmity they experienced drew in no small measure from the example of Nazi Germany, which did not hesitate to portray the Jews as the common enemy of Germans and Poles alike. In the face of these developments, Polish Jews attempted to wage a coordinated and concerted political battle against the economic persecution, hostile administrative practices, discriminatory legislation, and violent riots that increasingly pervaded their daily lives. Melzer recounts those attempts and analyzes their failure. Of the three primary groups among Polish Jewrythe Zionists, Agudas Yisroel, and the Bundonly the last was capable of carrying on effective opposition to anti-Jewish forces. But it was not prepared to join with nonproletarian Jewish groups in an all-Jewish defense. The Jewish press, too, was not able to forge a unified Jewish organizational framework, tied as it was to the existing political parties and reflecting their attitudes and shortcomings. The only official political voice of Polish Jewry was the small Jewish parliamentary caucus. Although respected by much of the Jewish public, the Sejm and Senat deputies were not recognized as its legitimate spokesmen and usually acted without coordinating their interventions with one another. As a result, the most effective Jewish actions were undertaken on the local levelnotably the self-defense organized during the Przytyk pogrom and the stubborn battle of Jewish students against the ghetto benches. Melzer demonstrates that the vociferous Jewish public debate over questions of policy and the tenacious daily struggles against discrimination had little effect upon Polish Jewrys deteriorating situation. Without charismatic leadership and an organizational framework based on common Jewish destiny and mutual identification, its ability to confront the grave challenges that lay ahead was seriously impaired. With the approach of war, many felt they were trapped with no way out, left to face the Nazi onslaught virtually alone.